President Joe Biden had conspiracy theorists in a tizzy after posting what appeared to be his reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win on Sunday night.

“Just like we drew it up,” Biden posted on X alongside a photo of “Dark Brandon,” the meme created by hardcore—and very online—supporters of Donald Trump that Biden and his team loved so much they adopted it as their own.

The post was apparently referencing far-right conspiracy theories which posit the NFL and high-level government operatives conspired to rig the Super Bowl in Kansas City’s favor to give maximum exposure to a yet-to-be-announced endorsement from Chiefs star Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift.

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      Clearly. As non-US person, clearly see this whole US political shit like a reality-show, so there is no room for this kind of thing in my memory.

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        Here we go again… The web, which is what most people think about when saying “internet”, is an European invention.

        So the low level stuff is American, but higher level stuff is European. But then again, were could claim that “web 2.0” was invented by American companies.

        Internet is 70% American?

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            That article is a joke. bbs’ we’re doing that long before berners lee made www a thing. The “web” was always there. All he did was develop another protocol.

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          When people say ‘Can I get the password for the internet?’ they are undoubtedly referring to the wifi password, which is an Australian invention.

          Internet is 40% American?

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            Oh… All this time i thought they were talking about “the internet”, trying to ask me the password to access my ISP’s IP routing tables! 😯

            It makes so much sense now that i think about it… They were confused when i replied that i didn’t know what was the password to the internet!

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          You can argue about this all day long. The web was invented on a Next computer, created by Steve Jobs, written in C or maybe C++, also invented by Americans.

          Point is, a thousand different things had to come together from all over the world to create the modern Internet. I don’t think it’s accurate to say only one entity was responsible for it.

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          Very human of us to argue over who gets credit for creating the greatest tool for collaboration in history when it was clearly a collaborative process.

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          I love how you say all that and then provide ZERO sources, like I’m supposed to take the word of some random stranger on the network that Americans invented.